Highlights of recent trends in the Australian libraries

Highlights of recent trends in the Australian libraries sector 31 March 2011 Debbie Campbell Director, Collaborative Services Resource Sharing and Innovation http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3. 0/au/

Strategic Directions • the Resource Sharing & Innovation Division’s Strategic Plan sets out proposed development and ongoing delivery activities between July 2010 & June 2012 • an update is released every six months • our goal is a minimum of one software upgrade per workflow module each year http: //nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/directions. html 2

Still expanding Members: 1, 251 >> 1, 263 (>> 1, 283 so far this year) ANBD size: Holdings: 46 m >> 47. 1 m (>> 47. 25 m) New authority records: 2, 570 (>> 1, 620 added so far this year; 1. 8 m in total) Bibliographic records: 19. 6 m >> 20. 3 m (>> 21 m) Record Import Service sites: 203 >> 242 Documents delivered: 319, 000 >> 321, 000 requests Supplied to New Zealand via Libraries Australia: 5, 020 >> 5, 820 Supplied to Australia via Te Puna: 2, 580 >> 2, 917 ISO ILL sites 71 >> 100 of the 720 members which use LADD Searches: Down from 15. 8 m to 15. 56 m including use of the free search service down from 2. 5 m to 1. 33 m (switched off 4 December 2009) >> 5. 3 m in Searches of World. Cat from Libraries Australia: 1. 23 m >> 1. 41 m Referrals from World. Cat to Australian libraries ~ 149, 000 http: //www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/documents/annual-report-2009 -2010. pdf 3

Four key workflow modules Bibliographic utility Cataloguing Search Interlibrary loan www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/release-notes. html 4

Bibliographic utility CBS – Ingest of data via SRU Record Update (diagram provided by OCLC) This technology can be used to support “the identification of current holdings in real time, and replace records of NZ material in international catalogues” MTPV #2, MTVP #4 – Duplicate Detection & Resolution (DDR) program www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/news/documents/newsletter-8. pdf 5

Cataloguing Client Basic web form Batch (RIS) New records 9. 9% 4% 86. 1% Edits 13. 2% 0. 14% 86. 66% firstly, in the cataloguing client: improvements to record copying and importing, additional user customisation, and an enhanced special characters toolbar; • secondly, in the supporting CBS software: automatic translation of Greek and Cyrillic scripts, better matching/merging in the Record Import Service, the addition of OCLC identifiers, and a new cataloguing template for serial component parts (language material). www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/news/documents/newsletter-8. pdf 6

Searching ongoing deep linking to local catalogues the “green button” project to migrate the subscription search service from Tera. Text to Lucene (the Trove platform) www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/search/deep-linking. html 7

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Interlibrary loan Libraries Australia Document Delivery Including the LADD Payments Service “Increased interloans of NZ material overseas” MTVP KPI – ISO ILL protocol – RSS alerts for the LADD suspension directory – Manuals maintained in a wiki environment, for both members and trainers (in near real time) www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/docdel/members. html 9

Partnerships OCLC Agreement renewed in July 2010 for four “Get record creation for years NZ material to market World. Cataloguing Partners more quickly and utilise metadata through the whole publishing chain” MTVP #5 British Library Document Supply Centre email requesting via LADD Te Puna interloan cross-Tasman service delivery www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/oclc. html www. bl. uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/pricing/nonuk/international. pdf 10

Reporting www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/statistics/index. html “Improve partnership model through. . communication. . and reporting” MTVP #1 11

Adding value RFIDs in South Australian public libraries (managed by Public Library Services) 12

Adding value • weeding small collections, to improve: – lack of currency in holdings – broken links – content in search of a holding www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/newsletter. html, Issue 6, April 2010 13

Adding value cataloguing hidden collections (Reimagining Libraries Project 8 – Description and Cataloguing) www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/search/get-via-trove. html 14

Top 10 myths #1 I don’t encourage anyone to do much searching because my library gets charged for every search we do. #6 If I can see the records in my local catalogue then they will be visible in Trove too. #2 I’m not a cataloguer or a manager so I can’t go to Libraries Australia user group meetings. #7 Only Libraries Australia Trainers can use the Training Database. #3 My library doesn’t put its holdings on to Libraries Australia because we don’t want to get interlibrary loan requests. #8 We get a discount on our subscription for all the holdings that we add to Libraries Australia. #4 We don’t use Enhanced Requesting because it’s too dangerous to let all our users make interlibrary loan requests. That will cost us way too much money. #9 I want to update all my holdings in Libraries Australia but I don’t like the idea of how much work that will be for me so I don’t bother. #5 If we want to download and use the Libraries Australia Cataloguing Client, it costs us extra. #10 I am pretty busy. I don’t waste time searching the database before I add a new record. It doesn’t hurt. 15

Australian Libraries Gateway library access conditions trove. nla. gov. au/work/33731682 http: //trove. nla. gov. au/work/33731682 16

Trove coverage People Australia

Coverage: scope statement bibliographic records representing resources that are part of an Australian library collection other bibliographic records (eg Library of Congress) required to support copy cataloguing in Australian libraries manifestation level records in order to support copy cataloguing and interlibrary loans collection level records if manifestation level records are not available holdings data supplied in bibliographic records or as separate holding records name and subject authority records “expand availability of Te Puna’s metadata” MTVP #3 records that meet Libraries Australia’s minimum record standard… www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/anbd. html http: //trove. nla. gov. au/general/about. People 18

Coverage • deselection (Reimagining Libraries Project 7 – Collaborative Collections) • digitisation www. hathitrust. org 19

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What’s most important? www. kenchadconsulting. com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/National_Catalogue_CILIP_Gazette_Sep 20101. pdf 21

Questions? www. nla. gov. au/librariesaustralia/laac/papers. html 22